[dundee] [Fwd: FW: Seccubus press release..]

[Kris Davidson]

What a stupid name and explanation

2009/11/21 Arron M Finnon <finux at finux.co.uk>
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> AutoNessus is changing its name, press release forwarded
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> Subject: FW: Seccubus press release..
> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:39:13 +0100
> From: Frank Breedijk <FBreedijk at schubergphilis.com>
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> For publication after 19 November 17:00 GMT+1
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> AutoNessus has a new name: Seccubus
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> Since it became apparent that the next version of AutoNessus was going to outgrow the reference to Nessus, Tennable’s Network Security Scanner, due to the inclusion of other scanners such as OpenVAS, NMAP and Nikto, the author of the program, Frank Breedijk, decided to start a contest for a new name.
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> On the 19th of November Frank Breedijk announced that Jason Mansfield, who runs the website http:/clinicallyawasome.com, has won the contest by sending in the name Seccubus. A bottle of Vueve Clinquot champaing will be sent to him shortly.
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> The author has provided the following explanation of the name Seccubus:
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> Seccubus is a mythical creature that helps security professionals analyze and report the results of, repeated, vulnerability scans. Like its distant cousins the Succubus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succubus) and Incubus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubus) the Seccubus is also a creature of the night. At night, or any other scheduled time, the Seccubus draws its energy from repeatedly performing vulnerability scans  of infrastructures until the vulnerabilities become exhausted or die.
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> The Inseccubus is the male counterpart of the Seccubus. While the Inseccubus draws his life energy from the assessor by repeatedly requiring him to (re-)analyse the same findings, the Seccubus get her energy from pleasing the assessor by reducing the number of findings by means of delta reporting.
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> The name Seccubus was chosen from a list of over 50 ideas sent after the contest was announced via the AutoNessus.com website, Hacker Public Radio (http://www.hackerpublicradio.com), Paul dot com (http://www.pauldotcom.com) and various other social media outlets like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
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> “I wanted a name that was completely different from AutoNessus” said Frank Breedijk, explaining why suggestions like AutoVAS and AutoVAMP where turned down. Other suggestions where turned down because their name was already taken on media like twitter (e.g. VAsak, Vulnerability Assessment Swiss Army Knife) or “simply because I didn’t like them” (e.g. Mick Douglass is awesome).
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> Now that the new name has been announced the “rebranding” will be complete before the end of the year. The website www.seccubus.com is already live but still points to the AutoNessus.com site. Also Frank’s twitter account, @autonessus, will be renamed to @seccubus soon.
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> The response to the renaming contest was overwhelming and we would like to thank everybody who participated.
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